Mafia History: Dairsie and the book of towns page 1

Being a Cupar based Mafia we usually must travel from Cupar to St Andrews for work. For a rather long period of time the back road was closed and as such every morning we would have to travel through Dairsie.
This wouldn't be a problem but on such a nice straight bit of road you resent breaking from 60mph to 30mph down to 20mph to go through it especially since there is nothing there.
After a few months of being annoyed at Dairsie's existence we started to make a game of driving through and spotting the things Darsie has to offer. A few weeks later after a trip to Glasgow and back we were off comparing small town commodities to those of Dairsie and as such a travel challenge arose.
Much like the Michelin ISpy books of our childhood for every town we drive through we have a book containing check lists in, comparing everything to our now beloved Dairsie.
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Town	Pub	School	Bus Stop	Park	Shop	Phonebox	2 Others	Better Comparable Worse
Dairsie	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Garage, B&B, Church	Darsie
Star	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Takeaway, 2nd School	Comparable
Balmullo	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Farm	Worse
Guardbridge	Y (hotel)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Chipshop, Pineshop, Hairdressers, Beauticians	suprisingly better
Leuchars	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	RAF Base, Station, ATM, Fife cycle centre, double glazing	Better
St Michaels	Y (Hotel)	N	Y	N	N	Y (Emergency AA)	Golf Course, B&B, Clay Pigeons	Worse
Pool of Muckhart	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Pub, Coffee shop, B&B, Church	Comparable
Forgan	N	N	Y	N	Y(Stoves)	N	Garage, Church	Worse
Bow of Fife	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Church	Worse

Page 1 - The Mafia's guide to towns comparable to Dairsie

This has also started us on having our photos take with signposts of these towns

And we even gifted a Dairsie jigsaw to Becca.

After a while we discovered Drum. It has an awesome name, so we have to go there. Much to our disappointment there was absolutely nothing there. No sign of a bus stop, nothing.  We'd reached a new low of town rubbishness. So now a new challenge began to find towns comparable to Drum. A much shorter list started.

In honour of Drum, towns with cool names but absolutely nothing there.

Drum
Pickletillum
Moonzie
Tay Bridge
Ratho Station

We are working hard on our guide book of places not to visit hoping that our mafia faction in Germany and upcoming travel results in this becoming an international guide book. Of course the book has to look the part too.

So that's page 1 and the beginning of the adventure, further pages will appear at some point when one of us can be bothered to type up a table.

The Mafia Associates.

Starting Word: Kitteh!

Over the past year we have been taken with the game iAssociate on Facebook and the iPhone. For those of you that don't know the game, you start with a word in the middle and then add more words in to show things that you link to that ending up with a massive mind map. The only problem is that we have issues with some of the associations so much so that we had to change the name to I-Don't-Associate. For example recently we had the word wine to associate something to. Now for us that conjures red, white, grape, Italy, France, vineyard etc. but despite our best effort that wasn't what the game wanted.
So for our project today we've been working on our own association. One of us started and then passed it on to the next one and so forth until we have our very own association map. Our first attempt using the word Kitteh is shown above.

Starting Word: Mafia

The Propeller Hat

We have wanted one of these for months.

Jacqueline has an obsession with Mario on the Wii.  Expecially when she has a propeller hat, due to the fact it generally makes all the levels easier. As such we always end up back at 1-1 to claim at hat so we can fly around (When Jack's isn't sweeging (suicide luigi missions).  Jacqueline also likes hats, a lot.  So Mafia member Marie (Austrian division) created this masterpiece for Jacks' Christmas present.  Jacks can now propeller around chemistry as she wishes.

New Year Presents

Due to the Mafia's great love of Cats we were gifted a Cat sticker book. Unfortunately for everyone else they have now started appearing all over the office, including the 1H NMR spectral characteristics. We can inform you that cats between a range of 10-12 on a 1 H Spectra. The book also includes such amazing cat facts as: "Cats have 244 bones in their bodies, that's 38 more than humans have!"

Saffy received some new gloves, with which she can carry out puppet shows. Today we're hoping for a lunchtime matinee.

Also a necessary staple to any Mafia member's wardrobe - unmatching socks, knitted lovingly by Marie for Saffy.

Progress of the woollen underwear...

Last night we finally began progress on the woollen bra knitting.  It's almost finished.
At the beginning of November last year Becca became hooked on knitting with marshmallow wool/fuzzy fluff. As such she started on a mission scarfing everyone she knew. Then saffy got an idea of making kitted underwear out of the multicoloured bubble wool. It's not the only thing she's come up with be prepared over the next few weeks for the reveal of all of her mad notions.

The partially finished bra being modelled by the lovely Eddy.

This week's Mafia board

The first Mafia board to be immortalised on the interwebs.

The Mafia board is one of the joys of Monday morning, previously it has hosted things like rapper of the week, WikiHow page, Capital of the week and Random Christmas present. It is up in our office for all to see and people to keep track of Mafia activities. For 2012 we have some new headings as well as a few of the old ones.

Tried and tested, this weeks paper airplanes.  Concorde (Bottom, second from right) was the outright winner.

Our new shiny paper aeroplane page a day calendar has given us our new topic plane of the week. Each week we will have made 6 planes which are being tested for attractiveness and flying ability. The choice of the week gets put on the Mafia board and meanwhile we hope to display the rest around the office.